General Information - After the revolution, the hens are able to keep their eggs - Napoleon, after his rise to power, forces them to forfiet nearly all of the eggs to Mr. Whymper, for grain and meal for the rest of the farm. - The Hens are distressed, and rebel against Napoleon by smashing the eggs they've lain. - Napoleon responds starving them.
The Hens
Soviet Farmers (Kulaks)
- Are forced by Napoleon to give up their eggs for the good of Animal Farm.
- Are forced by the Soviet government to give up ownership of their farms for the good of the USSR to make larger Bonanza farms.
- Respond by violently destroying the eggs they've lain.
- Respond by burning their crops and slaughtering their livestock.
- Punished by Napoleon, who cuts rations and starves them.
- Punished by Stalin, who makes their actions punishable by death.
Soviet Farmers
Kulaks and Collectivization
- The Kulaks were a group of Russian peasant farmers who owned medium to small-sized farms.
- Between 1929 and 1933, the Soviet government attempted Collectivization: a movement to seize the land from all private farmers and put them into larger, more easily managed Bonanza farms to supply the state.
- In outrage, the farmers rebelled by burning their crops to the ground and killing off their livestock.
- Stalin responded deporting the Kulaks to prison and forced-labor camps, and instituting the death penalty for anyone who was charged with neglect of their cattle or horses.
Hens
- After the revolution, the hens are able to keep their eggs
- Napoleon, after his rise to power, forces them to forfiet
nearly all of the eggs to Mr. Whymper, for grain and meal
for the rest of the farm.
- The Hens are distressed, and rebel against Napoleon
by smashing the eggs they've lain.
- Napoleon responds starving them.
Kulaks and Collectivization
- The Kulaks were a group of Russian peasant farmers who owned medium to small-sized farms.
- Between 1929 and 1933, the Soviet government attempted Collectivization: a movement to seize the land from all private farmers and put them into larger, more easily managed Bonanza farms to supply the state.
- In outrage, the farmers rebelled by burning their crops to the ground and killing off their livestock.
- Stalin responded deporting the Kulaks to prison and forced-labor camps, and instituting the death penalty for anyone who was charged with neglect of their cattle or horses.
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